J.4knee

As a fellow dog lover I feel for your loss. RIP Rocky.

Here is another option http://www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3922.asp http://www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3921.asp (Note for you'll have to cut and paste the links, I use a MAC and the forum software is not very friendly to it)

Actually I'm about 6 hours south. But yeah that place is gorgeous.

Lake Crowley

June Lake

Silver Lake

MIchelle with Bodhi on a pontooon boat a Gull Lake

Michael so sorry to read this. Although you will, you cannot blame yourself. Your obvious love for her is shown well here. Just let time run its course.

I volunteer San Diego to be the first pilot store!

I think you guys are just gettin jealous of us west coasters []

Thanks for the link Dee. If this pans out it would not surprise me. My oldest Malinois Alex could detect low blood sugar in me before I went on an insulin pump. She could sense it long before I felt it. She hit it right well ovef 90% of the time. These dogs are absolutely amazing. At 15 1/2 Alex no longer has that duty since it is rare occurance these days. If I had to pick one of my younger Mali boys I'd say Jake could easily pick up on this. His scenting ability is ridiculous, but I must confess I do not wish to be the subject he trains on.

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I use iTunes but I also use a Mac sorry....

Agreed, I contacted him a couple times and he was always a very nice guy.

... a little late to the party here but this is great news glad it went well and I wish you the best for your follow on treatment.

We have a collection can in our lobby for donations for his memorial service. Next to it is his picture with the image I'll choose to remember him by, a very big black man with an irrepressible smile lighting up his entire face.

I'll add one final comment on the topic. Like Chris has alluded to. We bear a responsibility and obligation to those whom we bring into our lives to share with them when things are bothering us, to give them a fare shake at being a friend. This guy had a son, who will live through the rest of his life wondering why his dad checked out. He has a sister who gets the dubious honor of flying out here to bring home what used to be her brother. I too fully understand and appreciate that life sometimes just gets too crazy and you want the train to stop. But this act did not solve his problem(s) it just killed him and made a whole new set of problems for the people who loved him. While I was not his best friend, I was one of his friends, a person who considered him a positive part of my life. I enjoyed our camaraderie, our interactions. I enjoyed his influence in my life. Now I sit here thinking I know I saw him not feeling well within a week of this tragic event.....I cannot help but wonder, should I have picked up on this, could I have helped him? These are answers I’ll never get. I know one of his best friends whom I am good friends with and whom I am reaching out to. This poor guy is just too confused to talk about it. His grief and confusion now must run a course they were not supposed to run. So yes this was a selfish act. I cannot fathom what pushed him over the edge of that d@mn bridge. But I sure would like to have had an honest opportunity to see if I could have helped to at least get him to someone who could possibly have helped.

Found out at work today a friend and coworker decided life was too much and jumped off the 805 overpass into a parking lot. We were "fortunate" enough to get a call form the SD coroner to tell us this. I knew he was not feeling well but I never in a million years woud have picked this man to take his own life. This was a guy who had a perpetual smile on his face. But I learned today over the past few weeks he had begun an horrific downward spiral. I cannot fathom what desparation must exist for someone to go to such an extreme. Part of me is very saddened by this loss yet another part of me is nearly infuriated with him. I simply do not understand these types of things, I am thinking maybe I am not supposed to.

For a smoker I'd recommend a Traeger pellet grill, they are pricy but they are awesome.

Did this with a standing rib roast on NewYears day. Turned out fantastic. I saw in on Food Netowrk, Paula Dean

I'd drop it to 250

The problem is when I wrote the origianl posts the line breaks werer there. This forum software has always doen this for some odd reason.

Yes I did, my first post should ha ve three separata lines (kind of like this post). The text layout/formating is what is lost when I post with Chrome or Safari. But I do not loose it when I post with Firefox

How does my original post in this thread appear to you?

I ilked it it was efficeint and reasonably fast. But in the end it offered me nothing that Firefox did not already have. .....and Firefox does not have the text formatting changed on this board the way Chrome and Safari do.